Finger Lakes Photography GuildProSeries Presents: Mark Bowie

This workshop features nationally recognized outdoor photographer, Mark Bowie. Bowie will guide participants through five distinct educational modules. A 90 minute lunch break will allow participants to hike the nature trails at the college with their cameras, or connect with other photographers at the Workshop.

Envision: The Art of Seeing CreativelyLearning to use our powers of observation — to envision an image in the mind’s eye — is a life-long learning process that can elevate our imagery to ever-higher levels. Mark covers field strategies for looking deeper, working with a wide range of weather, light and subject matter. He discusses seeing subjects not only for what they are, but what they can be. He examines how to truly see then transfer what we envision into a strong image by refining subject placement, using lines, form and detail, colors and tones to create compelling compositions. With example image sequences he relates how his thought processes and compositional choices evolved from the initial appeal to the final results — images with heart that resonate deep within us.

Compelling Landscapes: The Journey of DiscoveryIn this presentation — designed for photographers of all skill levels — Mark Bowie shares how he created special landscape images by using the camera as a vehicle for personal discovery. He presents example images from a variety of landscapes, shot in different weather and lighting conditions, to illustrate how “looking deeper” guided him to ever better results and new discoveries. He also examines how these discoveries can be applied in similar situations at other times to create extraordinary images.Mark discusses his learning process and how the camera led him beyond his presuppositions to unforeseen compositions and vantage points, how it suggested when to re-visit a scene to see how subjects can be rendered at different times of day or in different light. He also explains how the camera helped him hone in subjects and refine compositions, and how by eliminating distractions, we become more attune to color and shapes, patterns and textures.By letting the camera guide us as we chase light, we become better artists, with a deeper understanding into the creative possibilities of Nature’s ever-changing beauty.

​Multiple Exposures for Maximum LandscapesShooting and blending multiple exposures has revolutionized landscape photography. Through these techniques photographers can push the bounds of what’s possible to capture with a camera, achieving results closer to how we envision them than a single exposure could, and opening opportunities for capturing “never-before-possible” images. By shooting multiple exposures in the field and combining them in-camera or in the digital darkroom, photographers can extend exposure latitude, depth of field and camera resolution. State-of-the-art software including Photoshop and Lightroom CC, PT Gui, Photomatix, StarStax, and others offer powerful options for compositing these images quickly and seamlessly. In this new presentation, designed for both amateur and seasoned shooters, Mark Bowie explains the many benefits of blending multiple exposures, and when and how to shoot them — to go beyond the ordinary and realize the enormous potential of landscape imagery. He covers field techniques, equipment, and the software used to produce numerous types of multi-shot compositions:• Layer masks, luminosity masks, and HDR’s for expanding exposure latitude• Focus stacking for extreme depth of field• HDR panoramas and multi-row panoramas for expanding exposure range and resolution• Time interval and time-lapse sequences

Innovative Night Imagery: Beyond the Milky WayIn this stunning presentation night shooting specialist Mark Bowie covers groundbreaking techniques that go beyond making traditional images of star trails and the Milky Way to expand photographers’ repertoire and capture many other aspects that make the night so exquisitely beautiful.Using new and advanced techniques to render detail in both the landscape and night sky, Mark has been creating cutting-edge nocturnal images. These include time-lapse intervals of the moon’s trajectory across the night sky, panoramas encompassing the star-filled heavens and the long bow of the Milky Way, long exposures of the northern lights, and numerous meteors of a meteor shower. His time-lapse movies show stars and planets arcing across the heavens, and vehicle lights careening through cities.He’ll cover in-depth strategies and techniques for:• Photographing the landscape in relation to the stars, moon, meteors, northern lights and other celestial objects• Determining nighttime exposures• Focusing in the dark• Reducing noise in-camera and in processing• Combining separate exposures for the night sky and the landscape• Shooting and stacking multiple exposures to expand depth of field and reduce noise• Shooting time interval sequences of the moon• Painting with artificial light• Processing night images with Lightroom, Photoshop, StarStax, layer masks, luminosity masks, and more. He’ll also cover the software used to create star circles, timed intervals, night panoramas, and time-lapse movies.

Finding NovemberMark Bowie recently completed a self-assigned project to photograph November, staying close to home in western New England and northern New York State. He was out nearly every day — anytime from predawn to night — making images and recording his impressions. His goal was to look beyond the bare trees and gray skies to discover November’s hidden beauty. It became a very personal project, an exercise in the art of seeing and improving his craft.​This incredible presentation is a learning experience for all, photographers and non-photographers alike. It reveals the depth and character of the month, and the treasures to be found by looking deeper.

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